Issue48 Savior小组第6次作业

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题目：ISSUE48 - "The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten."
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  When the United States won its independence war in 1782, George.Washington immediately became one of the greatest heroes. Every time we read this piece of history, Washington would be first name which comes up into our mind. From history books, he has become the pronoun of independence of United States, but how about Thomas. Jefferson, John .Adams and other people who had fought for the nation? That is the problem: Our study of history places too much emphasis on individuals.   It is apprehensible that our study of history often emphasizes individuals because those great people have strong will and leadship. They changed or impulse the wheels of history. In the meantime, however, they cannot get their achievement without effects of groups of people that are ignored. For instance, during the Second World War, there are a lot of famous generals such as George Patton and Eisenhower. Histories may think United States will not win the war without them. On one hand, their affords cannot be undermined, on the other, we shall never forget who really decide the result of the war. As Chester Nimitz, the five stars general, said "From Solomon Islands to Filipine, there is our soldiers' blood everywhere." It is who we have ignored help us won the war. Without those groups of soldiers, we have no opportunity to end the war, even if we have a hundred Patton.
   Great individuals can impulse historic advancement, but they are not the decisive factor whether history develops or not. In other words, groups of people create history, then history chooses individual who makes significant events and trends. If George Washington was not born, there would be a John Washington or William Washington to take his place. But in case that American people did not want to independent, what was a single George Washington able to do? Common sense tells us: without drips, there will be no sea. Similarly, without affords of groups of people, individuals cannot achieve anything.
Considering our astronomy, we can easily remember Nicolas Copernicus and his heliocentric ordering of planets. Is there anyone attaching importance to other astronomers such as Galileo and Kapler? It is the affords of hundreds of astronomers before and after Copernicus that establish our today's astronomy.
   To sum up, when we mention significant events and trends in history, we are likely to relate them to great individuals, but at the same time we shall not forget groups of people who make the primary effects. Great as Sir Issac Newton also admit the reason for his achievement is that he stands on other giants' shoulders.  We ought to pay attention to those groups of people when we are shocken by great individuals in historic events next time.